.@jonfavs: "For the first time in any election during the Trump era, we are witnessing a veritable stampede of Republican candidates running away from their now wildly unpopular leader."
"The story is that [Susan Collins] has voted with Donald Trump 92% of the time. She has supported him when Trump has needed her." – @danpfeiffer on the message to beat Susan Collins in Maine.
"Doomer scenario is Trump ends up being quite unpopular but all these Republican candidates were just able to convince people that they’re different than Trump." – @jonfavs reacting to the latest New York Times/Siena poll.
"If they can't control you, that becomes a threat to them." Colin Kaepernick discusses why NFL owners allow players with legal issues to remain on the field, but has blackballed athletes who speak out.
Colin Kaepernick, who settled a collusion case against the NFL in 2019, reacts to Bob Kraft working with fellow NFL owners to get Macklemore removed from Ed Sheeran's tour: "They're just openly colluding now."
"They’re staying very focused on the needs of the people." –Colin Kaepernick on the politicians he's most excited about: Abdul El-Sayed and Zohran Mamdani.
"This is a weak, feeble president lashing out because he doesn't want you to know about high gas prices, or the Iran war going terribly or why his family's getting rich." – @TVietor08 on how Democrats must frame Trump banning the press from the White House.
“If you think about your arguments in terms of opening minds versus changing them, you can be a lot more successful.” –Jessica Tarlov on working at Fox News
.@danpfeiffer: "It's great to have a president in the pocket of the companies who want no AI regulation, and a Congress who doesn’t know how to use, or maybe even spell, AI."